Fall Festival of Shakespeare

“I can’t breathe, I am short of breath right now!”
“Fun, amazing life experience.”

-Students testimonials

The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a non-competitive region-wide collaboration. Portland Playhouse is partnering with seven area high schools – Jefferson, Franklin, Ridgefield, Hudson’s Bay, Fort Vancouver, Rex Putnam, and De La Salle – to produce seven 90-minute Shakespeare plays that will be performed first at each individual school and then come together at the Winningstad Theatre for a 3-day Fall Festival of Shakespeare.

The Festival is a spectacular theatrical event, in part because student actors connect well to Shakespeare; they get the passion, large stakes, disaster…high school is not unlike an Elizabethan Tragedy. But the biggest surprise is the creation of an electric and fully engaged audience during the Festival. This Festival audience is the most active and alive theatre audience you will ever encounter. They “oooh” and “ahhh”; call out “Oh no she didn’t”; scream and laugh. It’s the closest thing we have to how an Elizabethan audience at Shakespeare’s Globe might have reacted. It’s an unforgettable experience for the students involved, and an engaging cultural phenomenon for everyone to witness.

Performance Schedule

There are three performances total
Each school has prepared 90 minute cut of their Shakespeare play

Saturday, Nov 5 12:00pm (noon)
Twelfth Night (Ridgefield) & Hamlet (Fort Vancouver)

Saturday, Nov 5 5:00pm
Taming of the Shrew (Hudson’s Bay) & Macbeth (De La Salle)

Sunday Nov 6 2:00pm
Romeo and Juliet (Franklin) & Much Ado (Rex Putnam)

Location

Winningstad Theatre
Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA)
1111 SW Broadway, Portland
Directions

Tickets

Tickets are $10.00 + Fees
Tickets may be purchased from:

The Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA) Box Office
1111 SW Broadway
Open Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm (and before all festival performances)
Service Fee: $3.25

or…

Ticketmaster
1-800-745-3000
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0F00474DEA0E4A07
Service Fees range from $5 – $8

Questions?

Email me or call our office at 503-488-5822